Fun ways to unwind in New Haven

You can hike (or bike) to the top pretty easily, putting Yale in perspective as a little cluster of buildings in the lowland between the two outcroppings of East and West Rock. Take the Giant Steps to add a LOTR feel to your journey.

Yale’s Arts Calendar details basically every performance on campus – many of them free, and all of them together spanning pretty much every genre you can imagine (and some you can’t). No shortage of great ways to spend your evening.

Café Nine calls itself “the musician’s living room.” It’s maybe a little low on ramen cups and dirty laundry for that, but its small showroom does make the performances feel pretty intimate. Many talented performers stop here on the way to their NYC gigs.